In an interview with his daughter, Scarlett, Richard Curtis said his depictions of women were 'stupid and wrong'. That doesn't mean he should be cancelled
In an interview with his daughter, Scarlett, Richard Curtis said his depictions of women were “stupid and wrong”. That doesn’t mean he should be cancelledAbout five years ago, it was very fashionable to rat out old bits of culture as being “problematic”. Nothing titillated Twitter – it was still Twitter back then – quite like the revelation that a much-loved film or TV show was Bad, Actually.
If you, too, are unsure whether it’s more boring to decry all of Curtis’s work as insensitive bile or to denounce woke society as the death knell of culture, welcome to the safe space: here, we are allowed to whisper that some of the material was a little wince-worthy, and we should discuss the impact that had on people at the time. At the same time, we are all grown up enough to continue to enjoy the films we love with appropriate insight.
It is clear, therefore, that much of these so-called indiscretions were satirical, or at least self-aware; reading them kindly, they were observations of the very real standards they were subjected to at the time. When films age they become artefacts, vignettes of the period in which they were made, that can be enjoyed or not according to audience choice.
But rather than lambast them for their oversights, it would be more productive to ask whether the films we are making now are interesting, relevant, new and representative. Spoiler alert: old ones rarely meet those criteria. But they are still funny, heartwarming and comforting, and give us valuable insight into the times that have now passed, so that we can, if we feel it necessary, go on to be better.
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